10 WWE & AEW Wrestlers Who Have Benefitted From The Empty Arena Era
4. Eddie Kingston
The empty arenas have placed a greater onus on wrestlers to create suspension of disbelief - with no baying crowds, the predetermined scrapping can feel a little more pointless than usual.
Thankfully, that memo didn’t reach Eddie Kingston, who, both in the ring and on the mic, is about the most believable man in modern pro wrestling.
Kingston debuted on AEW in the middle of 2020 and was thrust into the spotlight with high profile scraps against Cody and Jon Moxley. His fights with the latter were terrific violent affairs, but it was when he teamed up with Mox that he really came into his own.
Eddie speaks with an intensity that never lapses into cartoonishness. The Mad King can carry a wild concept to its breaking point without ever going too far, and has a perfect grip of his loyal, violent, shoe stealing character.
He even masterfully sold the pyro botch in Moxley and Omega’s anticlimactic Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch, attributing his overselling of the underwhelming bomb to a panic attack. A strong contender for the best promo in the biz, everything Kingston touches is turning to gold.